Fred's 1st Build - STA1M

Must be blue guitar month. Each and every one of them look fantastic. Love the gold accents on this one Fred. Well done.

Amazing job Fred! She looks awesome. Any chance of a sound demo?

cheers,
Gav.

Thanks for the nice comments guys.

I think I need to play with the saddles and intonation a bit more before I record a sound demo.
I tried tonight and there's a bit too much buzzing on the low strings...
I was really trying to keep the action low but I may need to compromise a bit more.

Nice job Fred!

Hey guys,
I'm still trying to fix this buzzing issue I have.
I've got buzz only on the 3x lower strings, and only after about 12th fret. It's worst on E, and then less on A, and barely there on D.
I could raise the saddles more, but my high strings are very low and it then looks weird with the saddles going from almost lowest position on high E, to almost highest position on low E.
Also I find my E string a bit dull.
Any idea what could cause this?
I'm thinking:
- strings could be at fault (they are the pbg strings),
- fret shape
- bridge construction?
Let me know if you've ever come across that before.
Cheers

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Have you levelled the frets? If not, that is the most likely culprit.

Hi Fred, could be a number of reasons but as Pabs asks have you done a fret level ?
Also it sounds like the neck has back bow so the neck curve may be causing the fret buzz.
If you have a fret ruler/straight edge see if the neck is fairly flat when it's tuned up.
If the low E string is dull probably needs replacing. It could be because the saddle is set high it is further from the pickup pole and probably not as loud as it should be

Hi,
I've levelled the frets with a bit if fall for the 6 closer to the bridge.
I'll recheck the neck, but it didn't have back bow. It's got a little bit of bow. But I am thinking that the neck bow would cause buzzing for all frets and not only the last ones. I only get buzz from 12th fret and only low strings.
I'll look at changing that low E string too... May be the cause.
Thanks guys

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Actually could that be due to the frets being too flat? I've done a fair bit of levelling, especially the highest frets, so could they bit too flat? I mean a flat top instead of round?

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Hi Fred that is a possiblilty if the frets are flat and haven't been crowned will cause fret buzz. You might need to crown them and buy a crowning tool if you don't have one
EDIT Fred when you did a fret level did you make sure all the frets were seated with a fret hammer ? It is possible some frets may have lifted slightly in the slots.

Hey guys,
Thanks for all the comments!
I've already posted that in the GOTM post, but here it is again:

I've recorded the new guitar with clean sound, going through each of the 5x positions, starting by bridge only, finishing by neck only.
Playing is very average and I need to lift the bridge saddles I think to clean this fret buzz a bit.
Link to Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/fredarnaud/st...pickup-configs
Cheers
Fred

@wokkaboy: I've checked the frets and they look OK actually.
I did 'bash them into position' during fret levelling, and they seem to seat as they should. Also the fret don't seem to be flat. Look like I crowned them OKay...
I'm going to lift the saddles a bit. I think I've tried to get the action way too low.
Thanks for your help!